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Welcome to the Inside Climate News Podcast. Explore a diverse collection of audio stories that dive into the urgent issues of climate change, energy policy, environmental justice, and more. Whether you’re looking for investigative reporting, in-depth interviews, or powerful narratives, you’ll find it all here.

  1. 1D AGO

    Inside Climate Talks: Special Interview with Ed Yong

    ICN executive editor Vernon Loeb speaks with Ed Yong, Pulitzer-winning science journalist and author of An Immense World, about the extraordinary sensory worlds of animals. Visit our website: https://insideclimatenews.org/ Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    40 min

  2. 1D AGO

    Inside Climate Talks: Special Interview with Author Hillary Rosner

    Animals roam the Earth to mate, to hunt, to spread seeds and to participate in myriad processes that help sustain life. But what happens when their migration routes are impeded? Science journalist Hillary Rosner examines this question in her book Roam: Wild Animals and the Race to Repair Our Fractured World, and shares her insights in today’s interview with senior editor Michael Kodas. Visit our website: https://insideclimatenews.org/ Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    27 min

  3. 1D AGO

    Inside Climate Talks: Special Interview With Author Lydia Millet

    What is it like to experience the pain and joy of being human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened? Author Lydia Millet explores this theme, and more, in her memoir We Loved It All, the jumping off point for today’s conversation with reporter Kiley Bense. Lydia’s memoir, her first nonfiction book, follows a prolific and acclaimed body of fiction that grapples with themes of nature, animals and the consequences of climate change. Watch as she discusses what happens to human identity when we’re increasingly separated from the animal world, the challenges of writing about climate change in fiction, and what children’s toys will look like when animals we know today become extinct.

    36 min
  4. ICN Sunday Morning: Paramedics for Ecosystems

    APR 5

    ICN Sunday Morning: Paramedics for Ecosystems

    Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and investigative reporter Katie Surma as they discuss how the Shuar people in Ecuador are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant. In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador, residents working as “paraecologists” are documenting the biodiversity of their territory – home to endangered species, waterfalls, and medicinal plants – not simply for the record, but to protect the land from mining. The data paraecologists collect, such as species inventories and water samples, is translated into evidence that carries weight in courts. Increasingly, it’s winning cases. That’s because in Ecuador, nature has legal rights. Katie, who traveled to Maikiuants, Ecuador, to report this story, explains the work these paraecologists are doing, what impact it might have on mining in their community, and the complex relationships between human rights and the rights of nature. Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22... Explore ICN’s reporting on the rights of nature: https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/ri... Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    14 min
  5. ICN Sunday Morning: Earth’s Energy Imbalance

    MAR 30

    ICN Sunday Morning: Earth’s Energy Imbalance

    Go behind the scenes with senior editor Corey Mitchell and reporter Bob Berwyn as they discuss critical measures of the planet’s health. “Earth is being pushed beyond its limits while every key climate indicator is flashing red,” warned U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres after the release of the latest State of the Global Climate report from the World Meteorological Organization. The report highlights the significance of record-high concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and notes that the effects are visible everywhere, from the 11-year series of hottest-ever years to the way heat is accumulating deep in the oceans. And for the first time, it adds a new measure to the list of key climate indicators: Earth’s energy imbalance, which tracks the gap between the solar energy entering our atmosphere and the heat escaping back into space. Bob, who covers climate science for Inside Climate News, explains the real-world impacts of the energy imbalance, as well as melting glaciers, sea level rise, and pollution from unregulated space activity; and the disconnect between scientific knowledge and political action today. Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23... Explore ICN’s reporting on climate science: https://insideclimatenews.org/categor... Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    26 min
  6. ICN Sunday Morning: Interior Department in Turmoil

    MAR 30

    ICN Sunday Morning: Interior Department in Turmoil

    Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, data journalist Peter Aldhous and reporter Jake Bolster as they discuss an exclusive ICN analysis of workforce chaos at the Department of the Interior. One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of the Interior is in turmoil, hobbling many of the agencies overseeing the country’s public lands and waters. Not only has Interior lost some 11,000 employees, it’s also reeling from a drastic centralization of personnel, moving large numbers of staff into the office of the Interior secretary, Doug Burgum. That shift has created a hostile work culture, made staff less efficient and broken important lines of communication, former employees say. According to an Inside Climate News analysis of federal workforce data, almost 1,800 workers have left Burgum’s office since the reorganization—the vast majority opting to retire or quit. Peter, who conducted ICN’s data analysis, and Jake, whose focus includes public lands, describe how they discovered and took on this story, what makes Burgum’s reorganization so unique, and what ripple effects it may cause for America’s vast public lands and waters. Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17... Explore ICN’s reporting on public lands: https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/p... Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    19 min
  7. ICN Sunday Morning: Is the FBI Investigating Climate Activists?

    MAR 30

    ICN Sunday Morning: Is the FBI Investigating Climate Activists?

    Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and reporter Nick Kusnetz as they discuss how a recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents. An FBI agent arrived at the door of a former member of Extinction Rebellion NYC last month, saying she had questions about the environmental advocacy group. It wasn’t the first time climate activists have drawn scrutiny from the FBI. But the visit appeared to place this group on the leading edge of the Trump administration’s use of law enforcement to target protests and free speech that civil liberties advocates say are protected by the Constitution. Nick, an investigative reporter for ICN, explains details of the encounter, what it may have to do with President Donald Trump’s national security memo on domestic terrorism, and the unanswered questions about what broader investigative effort could be taking place. Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08... Explore ICN’s reporting on activism: https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/a... Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    16 min
  8. ICN Sunday Morning: Gobbled up by Agriculture

    MAR 8

    ICN Sunday Morning: Gobbled up by Agriculture

    Go behind the scenes with reporters Kiley Bense and Georgina Gustin as they discuss how agriculture is devouring the world’s grasslands, savannas and wetlands. Agriculture is the biggest driver of forest destruction around the world, especially in well-known places like the Amazon rainforest. But new research finds that other ecosystems—the world’s grasslands, savannas and wetlands—are being gobbled up for agriculture at nearly four times the rate as forests. As with forests, the main reason is livestock. Georgina, who reports on agriculture for Inside Climate News, describes what makes grasslands and wetlands such important ecosystems, what happens when they are replaced by cropland and pasture, and what’s driving the destruction in the United States. Read the story: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25... Explore ICN’s reporting on agriculture: https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/f... Subscribe to the ICN Sunday Morning newsletter: https://insideclimatenews.org/newslet... Support our nonprofit newsroom: https://insideclimatenews.org/donate

    11 min
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Welcome to the Inside Climate News Podcast. Explore a diverse collection of audio stories that dive into the urgent issues of climate change, energy policy, environmental justice, and more. Whether you’re looking for investigative reporting, in-depth interviews, or powerful narratives, you’ll find it all here.

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  • Creator
    Inside Climate News
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    52
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Inside Climate News
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    Inside Climate News Audio

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